As perhaps noone noticed , yesterday I've updated the pages of this website (except for the messageboard) to XHTML 1.0 Strict (which IMO is a nice thing).

As for the messageboard, here comes the problem. Updating the skin to the same XHTML syntax would be quite a lot of job. So either I would need someone to help with it, or... The other option is to get a completely new skin, or even completely new forum software.

Thus I'm now opening discussion about how this board should look and what engine should it run on. Any constructive suggestions are welcome - in particular, if you would like to propose some alternative forum software, please give some information about its strong and weak points.

Thank you for your readiness. If we decide to go on with upgrading the current skin, I will make a working copy of it (for testing) and give you FTP access to the files.

Sounds sensible.

09 Feb 2009, 16:53

MHajduk

Joined: 30 Mar 2006
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Location: Poland

MHajduk

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

MHajduk wrote:

Support for blue links really can make life easier.

OK. Done.

Thank you, Tomasz.

09 Feb 2009, 17:28

drhowarddrfine

Joined: 10 Jul 2007
Posts: 535

drhowarddrfine

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

As perhaps noone noticed , yesterday I've updated the pages of this website (except for the messageboard) to XHTML 1.0 Strict (which IMO is a nice thing).

Um. Well. No, you did not. All you did was add the XHTML stuff at the beginning of the page but you still aren't serving it as XHTML so all browsers only interpret it as broken HTML. So it's questionable that you gain anything from doing that other than learning how XHTML tags work and are validated.

One important issue. You properly inserted the xml declaration on the first line but only modern browsers know what that is while IE<7 chokes and goes into quirks mode and IE7 and IE8 ignore it altogether since no version of IE handles XHTML. You can safely remove this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Notice I have utf-8 which is what all pages should be using anyway.

09 Feb 2009, 18:24

Tomasz Grysztar

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 7725
Location: Kraków, Poland

Tomasz Grysztar

Are you talking about the message board pages here? Because, as I said, I updated the pages except for the message board.

As perhaps noone noticed , yesterday I've updated the pages of this website (except for the messageboard) to XHTML 1.0 Strict (which IMO is a nice thing).

Um. Well. No, you did not. All you did was add the XHTML stuff at the beginning of the page but you still aren't serving it as XHTML so all browsers only interpret it as broken HTML. So it's questionable that you gain anything from doing that other than learning how XHTML tags work and are validated.

One important issue. You properly inserted the xml declaration on the first line but only modern browsers know what that is while IE<7 chokes and goes into quirks mode and IE7 and IE8 ignore it altogether since no version of IE handles XHTML. You can safely remove this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Notice I have utf-8 which is what all pages should be using anyway.

Can you check the fasmarm page? I think I have fixed it up now to be properly compliant. Thanks.

if the idea of changing the forum board software already exists... why not just build one from scratch... may take months to year. but eventually, something that.... we could be proud of.

10 Feb 2009, 13:49

drhowarddrfine

Joined: 10 Jul 2007
Posts: 535

drhowarddrfine

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

Are you talking about the message board pages here? Because, as I said, I updated the pages except for the message board.

I was talking of this page. Either I looked at it wrong or forgot to clear my cache but you are serving it correctly now. Are you serving IE differently? IE cannot display application/xhtml+xml. I'm not on Windows so I can't check.

Revolution, yours is correct also.

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